(163 quotes found)
“Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.”
Andre Gide
“Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.”
Wilfred Peterson
“I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.”
Charlotte Bronte
“Shall not be long but I'll be here again:Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upwardTo what they were before.”
William Shakespeare
“... there is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms.”
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
“It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.”
“Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.”
Carl Sandburg
“Rental formal wear of the sky-blue, brocade and shiny varieties is favored by upwardly mobile young gangsters drafted as groomsmen for weddings.”
George V. Higgins
“Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun.”
Ruth Westheimer
“We expect the upward trajectory for the dollar to continue into next year. The main factor underpinning the dollar into 2006 will continue to be interest- rate differentials.”
Benjamin Pedley
